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autofs5 package

Can't login to 11.10 if autofs is used to mount network directories

Bug #877040 reported by Alex Cochrane
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
autofs5 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

After entering a password at the login screen I get a black screen and then dumped back to the login screen. If I comment out the mounts in /etc/auto.foo I can log in fine. I can then also uncomment out the mounts and have autofs mount them. It only fails when trying to login with autofs setup to mount something. The mounts are via NFS and this setup worked on 11.04 prior to upgrading. Can reproduce across multiple computers. Let me know what logs you want.
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ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 07f2dc2d64b254876a68ccb5add6fe97
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: autofs5 5.0.6-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.29-generic 3.0.20
Tags: oneiric
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (146 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Alex Cochrane (alexcochrane) wrote :

Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
autofs:
Installed: 5.0.6-0ubuntu2

Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)
Changed in autofs (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in autofs (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Alex Cochrane (alexcochrane) wrote :

Anyone looking at this? I am happy to help debug.

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Albenic (albenic) wrote :

One more with this bug. That's really a problem.
Any solution at this time ?
In my case, I can connect to my NAS via ssh with a public/private key system and I can mount manually a directory from my NAS.
But with autofs it doesn't work (I do not change anything to my files auto.master and auto.sshfs and with this files, it worked fine with 11.04).

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote :

Alex, can you please do 'apport-collect 877040' on the affected system so we get more information about what software you have installed and what conffiles may have been modified?

Also if you can look through /var/log/syslog and include any relevant entries that will help debug this. Thanks!

affects: autofs (Ubuntu) → autofs5 (Ubuntu)
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Alex Cochrane (alexcochrane) wrote : Dependencies.txt

apport information

tags: added: apport-collected oneiric
description: updated
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Alex Cochrane (alexcochrane) wrote :

For what it is worth, I tested this with unity, gnome and XFCE and the bug exists with both unity and gnome. XFCE works properly (and is subsequently my new desktop env), so it seems this is due to some package that is shared by unity and gnome but not xfce.

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